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19 Pieces Of Advice On My 19th Birthday

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Hannah Puckett

Oct 30, 2019

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Hannah Puckett

As of this month, I am officially 19 years old, and it is crazy that my time as a teenager is almost over. It seems like just yesterday I was a 13-year-old with bright blue braces, obsessed with Doctor Who, and learning how to put on mascara for the first time. But despite the inevitable awkwardness that comes with being 13, I love the girl I was then. And I am especially in love with how I grew and changed into the girl I am now- a 19-year old who forgets to wear her retainers, is obsessed with Rex Orange County, and is learning how to be an adult for the first time. Every year of life means a whole year of learning new things about the world, other people, and yourself, which is just so, so beautiful. So in celebration of my 19 years of life, here's a list of 19 pieces of advice I learned along the way.

1. Talk in silly voices

2. Let yourself daydream more often

3. If you want the coffee, buy the coffee

4. Take more walks, and look at the grass and the trees and the clouds

5. Exfoliate and moisturize

6. Light a candle every now and then

7. Drink more water

8. Let yourself cry

9. Take a cold shower every once in a while

10. Dance alone in your room to your favorite song and sing along as loudly as you can

11. Take more pictures of things that make you happy

12. Stretch

13. Have more conversations with yourself

14. Take a moment to close your eyes and listen to your breath and the world around you

15. Smile at strangers more often

16. Write down your feelings so they take up space on paper instead of in your head

17. Drive with the windows down and the music loud

18. Do more art

19. Be kind

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19 Pieces Of Advice On My 19th Birthday

Dancing alone in your bedroom is seriously therapeutic.

In This Article:

1. Talk in silly voices

2. Let yourself daydream more often

3. If you want the coffee, buy the coffee

4. Take more walks, and look at the grass and the trees and the clouds

5. Exfoliate and moisturize

6. Light a candle every now and then

7. Drink more water

8. Let yourself cry

9. Take a cold shower every once in a while

10. Dance alone in your room to your favorite song and sing along as loudly as you can

11. Take more pictures of things that make you happy

12. Stretch

13. Have more conversations with yourself

14. Take a moment to close your eyes and listen to your breath and the world around you

15. Smile at strangers more often

16. Write down your feelings so they take up space on paper instead of in your head

17. Drive with the windows down and the music loud

18. Do more art

19. Be kind

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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